{"id":39098,"date":"2014-12-28T03:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39098"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:57:30","slug":"watch-jesse-williams-of-greys-anatomy-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39098","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Jesse Williams of \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2014\/12\/jesse-williams-greys-anatomy-viral-race-video-white-black-person\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>WATCH: Jesse Williams of \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 on Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy<\/a><br \/>\n2014-12-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Paul@heavy.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paul Farrell<\/strong><\/a>, Breaking News Editor<\/p>\n<p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Williams_(actor)\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Williams<\/a> appears in a viral video that was published on December 17. The<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey%27s_Anatomy\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em><\/a> star take aim at racism and double standards in America, including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Housing_discrimination_%28United_States%29\" target=\"_blank\">public housing discrimination<\/a>, specifically in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The star goes on to discuss the logic behind the argument that <a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/tag\/michael-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Brown<\/a> robbed a store and therefore deserved to be shot, versus the argument about whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs-20110511\" target=\"_blank\">corrupt Goldman Sachs<\/a> bankers also deserve violence.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is mixed-race, the son of an African-American father and a Swedish-American mother. In the video, he states, \u201cHalf of my family is white.\u201d He also says, \u201cI\u2019m as white as you can get as a black person.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aFG4Qi3orAE?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2014\/12\/jesse-williams-greys-anatomy-viral-race-video-white-black-person\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Jesse Williams of \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 on Race Heavy 2014-12-22 Paul Farrell, Breaking News Editor Actor Jesse Williams appears in a viral video that was published on December 17. The Grey\u2019s Anatomy star take aim at racism and double standards in America, including public housing discrimination, specifically in Chicago. The star goes on to discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,26,20,842],"tags":[18894,18889,18895],"class_list":["post-39098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-heavy","tag-jesse-williams","tag-paul-farrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47427,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39098\/revisions\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}